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Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...World War I, it has risen to become the language with the highest number of non-native users in the world and is the most frequently used language among people who don’t share the same language in business, politics and academia. In universities in countries where English is not the official language, English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction and is often...
Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...world’, before meeting with Croesus in Sardis...The Croesus story from Herodotus Book 1 chapter 6 - 95 forms the ‘Lydios logos’, the basis for this final intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection. We have selected sections for you to enquire into how Herodotus’ narrative is linked with places in the Classical world. You may like to explore the...
Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...world’s biggest chip designers, Intel, AMD and ARM, and a second flaw in Intel chips. This means that almost every smartphone, tablet, laptop and business computer in the world could be vulnerable to having sensitive data including passwords stolen. The cloud servers that store websites and other internet data are also at risk. This is one of the biggest cyber security...
Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...world each year based on the computational simulation model study published in PLOS ONE. That’s $15 billion more than the insurance payouts for Hurricane Katrina, $40 billion more than the estimated costs of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and $20 billion more than the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake. That’s over sixty Airbus A380 airplanes, one of the...
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...World - Part 1: A Chronic Condition," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 2: Small Changes, Big Impacts," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 3: Local and Global Action," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So...
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...world? It is perhaps no wonder that a past Chair of Oxfam was once overheard saying running a larger public company where he had also been Chair was a ‘doddle’ compared to chairing Oxfam. So what are some of the challenges of running a large charity like Oxfam? An important difference between a charity and a business is that whereas a business raises most of its money...
The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...world. But he recognised that there were internal stresses and strains as working class hegemony was derailed by the Stalinist model of socialism. Even though the systemic flaws and distortions had been serious, Walter grimly predicted huge losses in East Germany’s progressive social programmes now the Wall was down. As we walked around what was East Berlin Walter, then...
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...world more just and correct than yours? Are your beliefs a threat to my way of life? In a world in which society and culture are always evolving, these norms become the focus for debates – or, more often, all-out arguments – about the sort of society we want to live in. The dynamics which lie behind offence culture, then, are an unavoidable part of social life. In a...